Whilst I'm thrilled that the monstrous partriachal injustice of the name of a mathematical problem including 'man' rather than 'person' has been annihilated, I'm also concerned about the extra co2 emissions generated by the data transfer associated with those three extra letters.
IDK. Personally I think it's silly to romanticise and wax lyrical about what are - when it comes down to it - errors in the data; artefacts of the crudeness of the technology that was available when the material was created. Do we routinely add errors of this type to modern footage? No. Why not? Because they detract from the material.
The material is already hugely compromised as a historical document of the reality on the day the events were captured. Let's not put it on a pedestal. For example, if we remove the effect of hand-cranking on film to make it more watchable, are we destroying or enhancing? I would argue the latter. The hand-cranking adds little of value.
Not if you're part of the massive destruction of wildlife wrought by these biodiversity annihilators masquerading as cute pets.
'As an invasive species[1] and superpredator,[2] they do considerable ecological damage.[2] In Australia, hunting by cats helped to drive at least 20 native mammals to extinction,[3] and continues to threaten at least 124 more.[3] Their introduction has caused the extinction of at least 33 endemic species on islands throughout the world.[2] Feral and domestic cats kill billions of birds in the United States every year, where songbird populations continue to decline.[4]'
I think there is vast potential for moving all kinds of activities underground. Upfront cost is huge, but once it's done as long as it's maintained it's there for good.
Indeed, it's the first 'popular revolution' I've ever seen that's been pushed hard as a full-spectrum propaganda war by virtually the entirety of the establishment and elite; this 'diversity' they bore on about ad-nauseam does not seem to extend to diversity of thought. Object to it and you get cancelled (or worse) by the SJW footsoldiers.
'“The problem with colourisation is it leads people to just think about photographs as a kind of uncomplicated window onto the past, and that's not what photographs are,” says Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Associate Professor at University College Dublin’s School of Art History and Cultural Policy.'
Why do these academics always want to complicate things and dictate how we feel? Nobody put them in charge!
'“There's something that's gained, but there's also something that's lost,” says Mark-FitzGerald. “And I think we need to have a conversation about what both of those things are.”'
I'm guessing that would be a pretty one-way 'conversation'.
Edit: looking at the Leeds video it's clear to me the processed version adds a great deal - you can even see clearly how much fun they are having by the smiles on their faces, which is pretty hard to spot on the raw footage. It's charming to think of them fooling around in the garden with new technology, 132 years ago this month.
I sometimes wonder if someone at the top is trying to drive people away from TV/film/video. Yes there's more content than ever before but as regards drama etc. the writing is generally dreadful and the stories lack originality, on YouTube the adverts are becoming obnoxious and if extremely one-sided political messaging isn't to your taste, well, good luck finding a single programme that isn't stuffed to the gills with it.